News Item 1925

Shaun Peters pointed out a bunch of taxonomic changes that had not gotten through during the update to IOC6.3. Fixing those, and with a handful of other additions we are now at 9957 species.

What is the reason for not (yet) going all the way to the latest IOC version (8.2)? Just asking, not complaining!

Hans Matheve on August 23

hi Hans, the main reason is that versions after 6.3 come with many more translations (among which one in Afrikaans, that was provided by XC recordist Marion Maclean). It involves changes to the database that seemed a bit too much for this update. Other reason: we still had to distill some changes from the IOC page. Unhelpful format there! Also, Rolf had not quite finished the map updates . He has now! Update due in november....